Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism Together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James |
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... abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number , ' nor of " experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence , " must be committed to the flames : " for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion . " Comte , who ...
... abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number , ' nor of " experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence , " must be committed to the flames : " for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion . " Comte , who ...
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... abstracts from life . The profit of religion , like the success of any worldly enter- prise , is conditioned by the truth of the presuppositions , the correctness of the adaptation , on which it proceeds . What nature will not tolerate ...
... abstracts from life . The profit of religion , like the success of any worldly enter- prise , is conditioned by the truth of the presuppositions , the correctness of the adaptation , on which it proceeds . What nature will not tolerate ...
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... abstract characters , such as ' relation , ' order , ' ' continuity , ' an exact description of which leads . likewise to a mathematical or logical formulation . Where such descriptions have been obtained , as in the case of physics ...
... abstract characters , such as ' relation , ' order , ' ' continuity , ' an exact description of which leads . likewise to a mathematical or logical formulation . Where such descriptions have been obtained , as in the case of physics ...
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... abstract ideal being taken for granted . Philosophy is then only an attempt to find the the value of x , where x is that something of which every- thing is a case , and in terms of which every aspect and alteration of everything may be ...
... abstract ideal being taken for granted . Philosophy is then only an attempt to find the the value of x , where x is that something of which every- thing is a case , and in terms of which every aspect and alteration of everything may be ...
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... abstract separation of matter and force . The former abstracted from the latter — a matter with no inter- nal attraction and repulsion , " a being without properties , " is nothing at all ( " ein Unding " ) . The form and movement of ...
... abstract separation of matter and force . The former abstracted from the latter — a matter with no inter- nal attraction and repulsion , " a being without properties , " is nothing at all ( " ein Unding " ) . The form and movement of ...
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